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Found in 8 Collections and/or records:

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Thomas F. Bayard Papers

Identifier: MSS12088
Abstract

Senator, secretary of state, and ambassador. Correspondence, letterbooks, scrapbooks, and miscellany relating to Bayard's career after the Civil War as a politician and legislator and as a cabinet official and diplomat during the presidential administrations of Grover Cleveland.

Dates 1780-1899; Majority of material found within 1860-1889
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Sayles Jenks Bowen Papers

Identifier: MSS75887
Abstract

Public official and mayor of Washington, D.C. Family and general correspondence and business and legal papers, chiefly 1876-1882. Topics include the elections of 1876 and 1880, the presidential administration of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, and political support for James Gillespie Blaine, James A. Garfield, and Chester A. Arthur.

Dates 1836-1882; Majority of material found within ( 1876-1882)
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Marian S. Carson collection of manuscripts

Identifier: MSS84367
Abstract

Collector. A collection of Americana including historical letters and documents, family and personal papers, broadsides, financial and legal papers, illustrated and printed ephemera, government and legislative documents, military records, journals, and printed matter relating primarily to the expansion and development of the United States from the colonial period through the 1876 centennial.

Dates 1656-1995; Majority of material found within 1700-1876
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William E. Chandler Papers

Identifier: MSS15537
Abstract United States secretary of the navy, senator from New Hampshire, and lawyer. Principally bound volumes of correspondence documenting Chandler's activities as assistant secretary of the treasury, 1865-1867, secretary of the navy, 1882-1885, United States Senator from New Hampshire, 1887-1901, and chairman of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, 1901-1908. Includes material reflecting Chandler's prominence in the Republican Party and his role in the presidential campaigns of 1868 and 1872, in...
Dates 1863-1917
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Samuel Freeman Miller Correspondence

Identifier: MSS65919
Abstract

Lawyer and associate justice of the Supreme Court. Letters from Miller to his brother-in-law, William Pitt Ballinger, relating to a broad range of political and judicial issues and a microfilm edition of Ballinger's diaries.

Dates 1854-1887
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Reid Family Papers

Identifier: MSS65491
Abstract

Journalists and newspaper publishers. Correspondence, financial records, office files, household and estate records, subject files, scrapbooks, printed matter, and miscellaneous papers related to newspaper publishing and public affairs.

Dates 1795-2003; Majority of material found within 1869-1970
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Carl Schurz Papers

Identifier: MSS39156
Abstract

United States cabinet officer, diplomat, senator from Missouri, Union army officer, journalist, and reformer. Correspondence, speeches, articles, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and scrapbooks pertaining to Liberal Republicanism, tariff reduction, civil service reform, anti-imperialism, election campaigns, and the administration of Rutherford B. Hayes in which Schurz served as secretary of the interior.

Dates 1837-1983; Majority of material found within 1860-1906
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John Sherman Papers

Identifier: MSS39784
Abstract Secretary of state, secretary of the treasury, and United States senator and representative from Ohio. Correspondence, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers chiefly relating to Sherman's role in Ohio politics after 1850. Includes family correspondence during Sherman's school years, general correspondence during his years in Congress and the cabinet, and papers relating to Kansas in the 1850s when he was a member of the House of Representatives committee investigating conditions in the...
Dates 1836-1900; Majority of material found within 1857-1894